Another great life drawing session, with poses from 2 minutes up to 30.
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Ballet Gestures
I thought I'd push my gesture skills a bit and try drawing from moving figures, so I pulled up some ballet videos on YouTube. Very difficult, but good fun!
Life Drawing, 14th March
Life Drawing, 7th
These drawings are from earlier this month. Another excellent model! I struggled after the break - most of the drawings below are from the first half.
Life Drawing, 24th
I moved in late November last year and it's meant I haven't been to a life drawing class since then. Thankfully earlier this week I was able to go again!
The Life of Birds
Today I attempted some gesture drawing from an episode of The Life of Birds. As I reached the end of Planet Earth II last year I realised I really should have had my sketchbook out. It's good training for cafe gesture drawing, which I'm normally pretty hopeless at. As...
Character and Story Masterclass
Last month I got to take part in a fantastic two-day masterclass with Wouter Tulp and John Nevarez. On one day we came up with different character poses and situations for someone saying 'Go ahead, I'll wait.'The drawings above were my first rough ideas. I wanted to...
Gesture Drawings, August
I haven't posted any figure drawings in ages. They've been building up for a while so here are some of my gesture drawings from a fantastic workshop that Sarah Airriess (former Disney animator, animation assistant on Duet, and animator on Ethel and Ernest) gave during...
Life Drawing, 8th
After being in Glasgow for almost a whole month (!) I made it along to life drawing at the ATYN here on Monday. The location and the models were great, but I missed having short poses after the break! I felt I fiddled with my drawings too much during the longer poses....